As MA special ed spending climbs, kids fall farther behind
July 2nd, 2009Cover story from CommonWealth magazine (registration required). An excerpt:
The cost of special education in Massachusetts is approaching $2 billion a year, but there is little evidence that the state’s huge investment is paying off as hoped.
… A three-month investigation by CommonWealth found what few in 2000 anticipated: The number of special education students, after dropping sharply in 2001, rebounded to near its previous level even as overall school enrollment was shrinking.
Special education children, as a group, are falling further behind their regular education peers every year, and an achievement gap of large proportions has opened between special education students in wealthy and in poor communities.
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The magazine has posted a ‘correction and clarification’ of the story here.
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